My priority: My obligations and responsibility to my family and future.
Top priority: % of my salary goes to repaying my debtors now and saving for the future later.
How I see responsibility and the moral value in it?
If I am a responsible person, when I have a dollar, top priority for that dollar should be spend on supporting my family and love ones first, and not my repayment plan or gambling.
After taking care of my family and love ones , that dollar will be use to repay my debtor, and not gambling.
After my family expenses and other financial obligations and responsibility was taken care of, that dollar can be save up for other important thing such as my old age
Concern I have:
Using the money I can afford for investment or gambling since they are not illegal or dishonest, and if they are not morally wrong in doing and not self-destructive in nature. I can understand that a gambling recovery person should not gamble to grow his money, the answer is a clear no as it can potentially made me a very sick person but I still need to make money for livelihood in the end, right? I will continue to pray to God for the wisdom and answer to made the right decision. I will try to be patient, be still and wait.
Confident found in God:
I trust God, I read his words, I found hope, I have confident everything will be fine in the end.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Strength and confident I received from God.
Many times now but not all the times, I have found the strength to say no and walk away from gamble, dishonest money and easy money opportunities that could potentially made me pay a heavy price later in life.
Will I encourage another person or myself to continue and go total abstinence in recovery.
It is a big Yes!!!
It was during the long period of total abstinance in recovery that I have grown stronger in mental strength and my mind has become clearer, and my body has become cleaner. It was like a training in the beginning and a healthy lifestyle or a habit later.
All these training from staying total abstinence has prepared me for the bad days or challenging times like the one I had recently in the last 40 days –(5 Aug to 15 Sep 15)
I have done ok and walk out of another seasonal bad weather.
I cannot do it but the recovery group can.
I could not do it but God can. Thank you God.